The Pittsburgh Opera has received a $5mn gift, the largest in the company’s 83-year history, from Francois Bitz, a tech entrepreneur and real estate developer who is also a member of the opera board. “A gift of this magnitude has … » Read

Sir Roger Norrington, leader of the historical performance practice movement both abroad and Stateside for the last half-century, has announced that he will conduct his final concert on November 18, leading the Royal Northern Sinfonia (RNS) at … » Read

The Little Orchestra Society (L.O.S.) has promoted its director of education and recent associate director to the top administrative post. Now executive director, Anthony C. Ball succeeds Joanne Bernstein-Cohen, who died in August at the age of … » Read

When Ghosts in the Ruins receives its world premiere in Coventry Cathedral this January, the requiem’s British composer Nitin Sawhney will be following in the footsteps of Benjamin Britten. Luftwaffe bombing raids destroyed the original … » Read

When New York opened to international travelers on Nov. 8, few people could be happier than those working in the arts and entertainment industries. Tourists from abroad mean the resurgence of ticket sales, dormant during the pandemic, to … » Read

Battered by a contentious musicians’ strike the year before the pandemic struck, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is again confronting labor troubles, this time not of its own making. Caught in an entanglement with the Strathmore … » Read

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has signed a new, three-year contract that immediately restores salaries to pre-pandemic rates, with annual raises totaling eight percent by the end of the contract. Musicians had accepted a 10 percent … » Read

With Germany’s Covid numbers rising in the last seven days to their highest level since the start of the pandemic, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Deutsche Oper Berlin is among those performing arts groups to reinstate the mask … » Read

LONDON--In opera, directorial “concepts” can sometimes be frustrating, distorting or even overwhelming a composer’s intentions. That Daisy Evans’s powerful re-imagining of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle as … » Read

MILAN--While 17th- and 18th-century opera has been a staple of European theaters for the last several decades, it is relatively uncommon among Italy’s opera houses. La Scala has been attempting to change that, scheduling a string of … » Read